Words Fail: Brass Pegasus automaton
Keith Newstead has been refining this design for twenty years. It shows. It’s gorgeous just sitting there, but when it starts to move…well, I think I audibly sighed. [via The Automata / Automaton Blog]
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NewspaperWood
Dutch designer Mieke Meijer and design firm Vij5 created wood made from compressed newspaper. Every day, piles of newspapers are discarded and recycled into new paper. Mieke Meijer has come up with a solution to use this surplus of paper into a renewed material. When a NewspaperWood log is cut, the layers of paper appear […]
Pictures from Arduino art show in NYC
Saturday was Alicia Gibb’s Arduino-themed art show at NYC Resistor (hackerspace in Brooklyn). It was packed, beepy, twitchy, blinky, and super fun! I had a piece in the show and took a few photos. There’s also a peek at photos to come over on the NYC Resistor site. Here’s Alicia looking super safe during setup, […]
Featured Maker: Shing Yin Khor
Shing Yin Khor is a sculptor and illustrator inspired by monsters, tentacles, mediocre science fiction movies, bikes, Dungeons and Dragons, and really adorable cats. Educated as a theatrical scenic designer and prop maker, and employed in the technology field, [I] now synthesize my eclectic skill set into accessible and affordable art ranging from desktop monster sculptures to walk-in spacepods installed at Burning Man.
Letterpress prints using dice as “type”
From Etsy seller Stukenborg. It occurs to me that, besides (the admittedly beautiful) geometric patterns shown here, one could probably work out a way to do monochrome images this way. [via Dude Craft]
SparkL Motion, an Arduino-powered ribbon necklace
Jen Savage of Alpha One Labs combined her software and sewing skills to make this SparkL Motion ribbon necklace.
Arcade sculpture
Artist Steve D’Angelo sent us a link to the video of this lovely electronic sculpture he made, an homage to arcade video games. He says that our very own Make: Electronics was an inspiration/guide for him. Nice to see the book is inspiring real-world results. Steve Gallery In the Maker Shed: Make: Electronics Our Price: […]